I just fall back a little from this suggestion. The database type of 7.2
and 7.3 is different. Just an upgrade will make the old database useless.
U need to backup the database, upgrade and then restore manually.
-vimala/.
On 19 Sep 2003, Robert Treat wrote:
> I didn't see any responses... I'd suggest doing an rpm -Uvh postgresql*
> so it sees that you are upgrading all the postgresql packages at once.
>
> --force probably would be okay as long as you have everything shutdown
> and are able to get through all of them without other problems, but it's
> certainly not optimal.
>
> Robert Treat
>
> On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 06:04, S.P.Vimala wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have postgresql-7.2.2-1. I downloaded the lib, server and
> > postgresql versions of 7.3.4. If u do an upgrade its gives a dependency
> > error saying the library file is req for the installed version 7.2.
> >
> > Can i do a force install with no dependencies on all the lib,server
> > and posgresql-7.3.4. Is this acceptable or will it create some problems
> >
> > -vimala./
> >
> >
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